The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-10
PERSONAL.

WHEN Senator George, of Mississippi comes
up for reelection in 1889, he will probably have
both Gov. Lowry and Lieut.. Gov. Sims for OPP
posing candidates
Gov GORDON, says that just as good rail
road-car accommodations are provided for col
ored people for white; or, if not, he has
not observed the fact.
w. H. GLADSTONE announces to the world
that he has personally assumed charge of the
sale of chips from trees cut down by his father,
and purchasers may therefore be assured of the
genuineneSS of the precious tokens.
REV. DANIEL p. PIKE, whose death has lately
been announced at Newburyport, Mass, is cred
tied with preaching 5000 sermons, marrying
more than 1000 persons conducting more than
1000 funerals and baptizing (by immersion)
nearly LOO converts.
Mr.. W. w CoRCoRAN, of Washington, gave
handsome dinner Wednesday night, of twelve
covers. Miss Eustis spent part of last week in
Washington with her uncle, and was accom-
panied back to New York by her brother Mr..
George Eustis, who went for a short stay.
LEOPOLD, of Belgium, was recently received
by a rural Mayor, who offered him glass of
wine, and, it being praised for its excellence,
remarked: But have some wine in my cellar,
your majesty, which is better STILL 'So?"
answered the King, with q twinkle in his eye;
then advise you to keep 1t for better occa-
sion than this"
THE man whom Senator Riddleberger was de-
Tending last summer when he incurred the dis
pleasure of the court and was sent to jail for
contempt was sent to an asylum for the insane
after the acquittal of the charge of stealing
rails. He spent several weeks in the asylum
and then the doctors decided that there was
nothing the matter with him but laziness.
DIR. MIDDLETON GOLDSMITH, who has just died
at Rutland, Vt, was one of the founders of the
New York Pathological Society short time
ago he gave the society $1,000 for a lectureShip
| on nervous diseases. In the medical world he
will be remembered as the first physician to in
troduce the use of bromine in cases of gan creme
and of disnfectants in the treatment of typhoid
| fevers.
SENATOR TURPIE is man of medium height
| slender, but not graceful to the ordinary eye
His dark hair and beard are heavily streaked
| with gray and his movements are quick and
nervous. When he reached Washington he
went quietly to his hotel and took modest
room. in which some of the brainiest of his
prospective colleagues have already been enter
| tanned. He is a charming fellow among his
particular friends, but is diffident in the pres
| ence of strangers.
Col. LAMONT says that Mrs. Cleveland has had
| but few photographs taken since she has been
| in the White House. The greatest number of
| the genuine ones in existence were taken before
| she married President Cleveland and the Wash
| ington photographers who have been given sit
| tings by her have abused their privileges by
| taking half dozen pictures when they were
| pretending to take only one. They would ask
| Mrs. Cleveland to move her head this way and
| that, and thus got a number more negatives
| than she intended to give them.
| Edmund YATES has recently established a new
department in his paper, the World. Of London,
called Moi Meme" Under this heading" he
says, 81 purpose from time to time to take my
readers by the button-hoe and ask them to listen
TO my comments upon passing events, and the
contingent "reminiscences which five-and- thirty
years Of active literary life may suggest The
PERSONAL---VERY. may use the word without Of
fense-of Atlas has become considerably
mixed, and so many subjects arc now treated
of under his signature, mos. of them, while I'M
donbtetIy interesting to the reader, obviously
and necessarily the work Of other hands, that
prefer TO set up pulpit for myself in which
shall be the sole weekday preacher"
GEN. PATRICK A. COLLINS, of Boston, stopped
in New York day on his way to the national
capital. The General is a Democrat but he is
made of the stern stuff that wins in this life,
even against heavy odds and he doesn't carry
his politics into his personal friendships.
| While discussing the result in Massachusetts
with group of friends he inquired with an in
| genuous air whether there had been any recent
additions TO the Mugwump faction here I'VE
used TO have some up in my State" he went on,
| but they must have migrated The party
| stutisticians have been hunting for them in the
election returns, but thus far no one can learn
| either that they voted or stayed at home.
Tn re is actually not single figure in the
voting on either side that indicates the presence
Of Mugwump."